Austria

The EIS country pages provide for each of the European countries covered by the EIS 2008:

  • Performance charts for each of the innovation dimensions showing both current and growth performance relative to the EU mean;
  • Performance charts for each of the innovation indicators showing both current and growth performance relative to the EU mean;
  • A data table showing time series data for the SII and each of the indicators.

More information on each country is available in the EIS report and its thematic papers which are available on the INNO Metrics website (http://www.proinno-europe.eu/metrics). Detailed information on policy measures and governance is available at the INNO Policy TrendChart website (http://www.proinno-europe.eu/trendchart).

 

For Austria, among the group of Innovation followers, innovation performance is above the EU27 average. Within this group it is a growth leader with a rate of improvement just above that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Linkages & entrepreneurship and Innovators and relative weaknesses are in Human resources and Finance and support.

Over the past 5 years, Human resources has been the main driver of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from growth in S&E and SSH graduates (7.9%) and Life-long learning (10.5%). But also Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship, Throughputs and Economic effects have shown a steady and substantial improvement. Performance in Innovators however has slightly worsened.

 

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